Seminar Held in India
Pyongyang, November 13 (KCNA) -- A seminar on the issue of nuclear nonproliferation and world peace viewed from the Juche philosophical point was held at Shambhu Dayal University on Nov. 4 under the sponsorship of the Western Regional Society for the Study of the Juche Idea in Uttar Pradesh State of India. Harish Gupta, secretary general of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, said in his speech that the issue of nuclear nonproliferation presents itself as an important one in preserving world peace and stability and what matters here is that nuclear weapons states, the U.S., in particular, are trampling down upon the sovereignty of other countries without hesitation.
Under the present situation where there is a nuclear threat from the above-said states in the international area it is a matter pertaining to each country"s sovereignty to have access to nuclear weapons, he noted, adding that the DPRK is not an exception.
He went on to say:
It was none other than the U.S. that compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons. Double standards should not be allowed if the nuclear proliferation is to be prevented. The nuclear weapons states should dismantle their nukes among other things as they are committed to doing so under the NPT.
Some professors and doctors from various universities including the president of Shambhu Dayal University and the former vice-chancellor of University of Delhi in their speeches assailed the U.S. for standing in the way of nuclear activities of the independent countries for a peaceful purpose and interfering in their internal affairs under the pretexts of the "nuclear nonproliferation" and "anti-terrorism war".
They said that the Songun politics pursued by leader Kim Jong Il under the present complicated situation is a unique political mode, underscoring in unison the need to more actively organize the study and dissemination of the Juche idea and Songun idea and politics in the days ahead.